Last Wednesday I spoke at at a World Bank conference on price statistics. While this is not usually thought of as a scintillating subject, I got a great deal of satisfaction out of preparing and presenting my remarks. In part, this was because my late father, Robert Summers, focused his economic research onInternational price comparisons. It was also because I am convinced that data is the ultimate public good and we will soon have much more data than we do today.
日前，我在世界銀行一個有關物價統計的會議上作了發(fā)言。這個話題通常比較枯燥，我卻從準備和發(fā)言的過程中得到很大的滿足感。這一方面要歸因于先父——羅伯特?薩默斯(Robert Summers)，他專注國際物價比較的經濟研究；另一方面是因為，我堅信數據是最基本的公共品，不用多久，我們掌握的數據量將遠超當下。
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